Using Slack and Bitbucket to work

together while apartBy: Alex McCabe

April 11, 2015

Alex McCabeSenior Drupal Developer

www.drupal.org/u/alexdmccabe

Design/Theming● Usability Testing

● Responsive Design

● Drupal Theming

● Annotated Wireframes

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Development● Drupal Support

● Custom Module Development

● Large Scale Systems Integration

● Security & Performance Expertise

We help organizations build highly impactful, elegantly designed Drupal websites that achieve the strategic results you need.

Digital Strategy● Content Strategy

● Content Generation

● Result Metrics

● Marketing Automation Integration

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● Channelorganization

● Etiquette

● Notifications

● Other cool features

● Code reviews withpull requests

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Agenda

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Organizing your Slack channels

Or, “Where do I put this cat gif?”

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#general● Watercooler chat

● Company announcements

● Staff meetings

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#client-[client:name]● One for each client

● Used to discuss tickets or anything else related to that client

● Generally we have a a 1:1 client:project ratio, but if there are multiple projects for one client, you could have multiple channels or not according to preference

○ #client-name-project1

○ #client-name-project2

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#mis-[topic:name]● Used for internal initiatives and groups

● #mis-daily-priority

● #mis-developers

● #mis-security

● #mis-vagrant

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#misc-[topic:name]● Specific off-topic “just for fun” chats

● #misc-film

● #misc-fitness

● #misc-reading

● #misc-sportsball

● #misc-parenting

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#team-[team:name]● Every team has their own channel

● #team-rogue-squadron

○ I’m not a huge Star Wars nerd, I swear.

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Private groups● Can’t be seen in the channels list

● Can only be joined by invitation

● Anybody can create one (if the permissions are set that way)

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Direct messages● Basically, just a private group for 2 people

● Slackbot replies (more on these later) will not work here… for now. This may or may not change, who knows

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Slack etiquette

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Talk to everyone at once● @channel

● @group

● @everyone

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Talking back● 30 minutes or less

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Slack notificationsOr, “Stop telling me about this cat gif!”

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Global● Separate desktop and mobile settings for

○ Any activity

○ DMs and highlight words

○ None

● Desktop idle timer for mobile

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Per-channel● Separate desktop and mobile settings for

○ Any activity

○ DMs and highlight words

○ None

○ Mute

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Other cool Slack stuff

Or, “How do I put this cat gif?”

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Fixed-width formatting● Inline - `one backtick`

● Block - ```three backticks```

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Inline images, links, and videos

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Slackbot replies● For fun and for profit

● The reply can be almost any text

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Emoji● Very wide variety of default emoji - see http://www.emoji-

cheat-sheet.com/ for the list that Slack uses

● Custom emoji can be added

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Emoji

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Integrations● Replies to external events

● Airbrake, App Review Monitor, appear.in, AppSignal, Asana, Beanstalk, Bitbucket, Bitium, Blossom, Bonusly, Boundary, Bugsnag, Buildkite, Circle CI, Cloud 66, Code Climate, Codeship, Crashlytics, Datadog, Desk.com, Dropbox, Enchant, Envoy, Giphy, GitHub, Google Drive, Google+ Hangouts, GoSquared, GoToMeeting Free, Groove, Help Scout, Heroku, Honeybadger, Hubot, IFTTT, Intercom, Jenkins CI, JIRA, Librato, Lita, Logentries, Magnum CI, MailChimp, Nagios, New Relic, Nimble HR, Ninefold, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Papertrail, Phabricator, Pingdom, Pivotal Tracker, Rainforest QA, Raygun, Reamaze, Room, RSS, Runscope, Screenhero, Semaphore, Sentry, StatusPage.io, Stripe, Subversion, Travis CI, Trello, Twitter, Userlike, Visual Studio Online, WorkingOn, Yo, Zapier, Zendesk

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Integrations

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Custom integrations● Requires some coding

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The list goes on...● Chock full of other features!

● More text formatting style - bold, italic, inline quotes

● File uploads and sharing

● Search history by channel, person, or a variety of other filters

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Bitbucket

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Git-flow

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Code reviews via pull requests● The key to coders working together, even in the same

physical location

● Designated reviewers

● Reviewers look for

○ Security issues

○ Inefficiencies

○ Coding standards issues

● Don’t let PRs linger

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Thank You!Questions?

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